title: Recent synthetic transport systems.
abstract: This critical review covers progress with synthetic transport systems, particularly ion channels and pores, between January 2006 and December 2009 in a comprehensive manner. This is the third part of a series launched in the year 2000, covering a rich collection of structural and functional motifs that should appeal to a broad audience of non-specialists, including to organic, biological, supramolecular and polymer chemists. Impressive breakthroughs have been achieved over the past four years in part because of a fruitful expansion toward new types of interactions, including metal-organic, π-π, aromatic electron donor-acceptor, anion-π or anion-macrodipole interactions as well as dynamic covalent bonds (169 references).
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. stefan.matile@unige.ch
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matile
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vargas Jentzsch
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Montenegro
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fin